CCL: With field complete, group-stage schedule released

The field is finally set for the 2012-13 CONCACAF Champions League and on Friday, CONCACAF released the schedule for this year's group stage.

Real Salt Lake will kick off MLS participation in the tournament when they travel to Costa Rica to face Herediano on July 31. Toronto FC host Águila of El Salvador while Seattle host Calendonia AIA of Trinidad and Tobago later in the round.

Along with Caledonia, W Connection (also of Trinidad and Tobago) and NASL outfit Puerto Rico Islanders qualified to the tournament from the group stages.

The Islanders' continued presence in the tournament (they are one of only three teams to have qualified for all five editions of the CCL) throws up a particularly tasty clash, as they will square off once more against the LA Galaxy, who they shockingly eliminated in the preliminary round of the 2010-11 tournament.

Also of note is the fact that three of MLS' five representatives will end the group stage campaign at home against Central American oppositiion. Toronto, however, will face a monumental task that round, traveling to face Santos Laguna of Mexico, while the Galaxy are away to El Salvador's Isidro Metapán.